Sheriff Ernie Grams

Sheriff Ernie Grams served from 1983 to 1986.
Ernie Grams began his career in law enforcement when he was appointed to the Duluth Police Department in December 1948 as a patrolman.  He resigned from the police department in December 1982 to assume the position of Sheriff of St. Louis County.

Sheriff Ernie Grams died on Monday, September 22, 1986 when his car crashed into a tree on East Superior Street in Duluth, MN. Grams had been sheriff since 1982 when he tallied 62 percent of the county vote, unseating four-term incumbent Greg Sertich. (Source: Duluth News Tribune, February 27, 1969.)